Careers: The Last-Minute Interview

The Last-Minute Interview

Written by Pierre G. Daunic, Ph.D., CCM

The phone rings. It’s Ajax Thingamabob Company. Could you come in for an interview for Regional Manager position tomorrow? Your breath catches in your throat—at last, an interview! Elated, you write down repparttar 135342

time and place of repparttar 135343

interview, who to ask for, say thanks, and hang up!

But, wait, it’s such short notice, and you haven’t been interviewed for ages. Too, you never did get around to practicing. How can you possibly prepare in time to perform well? You hesitate to call them back to reschedule—that might not look good. You feel repparttar 135344 anxiety building, even a little panic. What should you do?

Here are three easily remembered tips that will help a lot.

Relax. Remind yourself that you would not be interviewing at all if they didn’t like what they saw on your résumé. Review repparttar 135345 ad and repparttar 135346 response you sent them earlier (you did keep them, didn’t you?). Be reasonably sure that you understand what it is they are looking for in repparttar 135347 person they hire. But be prepared to ask questions during repparttar 135348 interview if repparttar 135349 position description seems vague. Your primary goal is to have a clear idea about what it is they need.

Tell them what they want to hear. Your purpose in repparttar 135350 interview is to expose and provide personalized solutions to their specific and stated (or implied) needs. Listen carefully, but remember that you have repparttar 135351 right and responsibility to ask questions of your own during repparttar 135352 interview. Your questions can often be derived directly from questions that they ask you. For example, if you are asked about your abilities in inventory management, you might logically ask them to tell you more specifically about what their current problems are in that area. Once you know repparttar 135353 nature of their concerns, then you are in a much better position to help them answer those problems … and that is what they want to hear!

"How to Create a Great Electronic Resume"

Written by Vincent Czaplyski

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perfect resume, you then need to distribute it. You'll likely be sending some professionally printed hard copies, especially to "A list" companies or organizations you've set your sights on. But just as likely, you'll be distributing other copies electronically.

Presuming you've written a great resume to begin with, here's what you really need to know about your electronic version:

1. It must be searchable.

2. It must be in ASCII format.

Searchable:

Someone searching repparttar 135195 Internet resume banks for repparttar 135196 perfect candidate (you) needs to be able to weed out all repparttar 135197 unqualified candidates, which potentially number in repparttar 135198 tens of thousands nowadays. Typically, they'll enter search terms intended to eliminate repparttar 135199 vast majority of posted resumes and select repparttar 135200 most promising. They do this much as one might perform an Internet search on Google or another search engine, by entering key word search terms

Their search might be limited to a certain geographical area, a certain skill set or qualification, or a certain job description, among obvious search categories.

The geographical part is easy - your contact information will help someone looking for a software designer in San Francisco Bay area or a pretzel maker in Milwaukee find you if you are qualified and live in repparttar 135201 right part of repparttar 135202 world.

However, if you have technical qualifications that can be searched in different ways - "Bachelor of Science" and "B.Sc." for example, your resume should use both variants so that a search engine finds you either way.

And if you possess job experience that's highly relevant to repparttar 135203 job in question, be sure to describe it in repparttar 135204 most common ways that it would likely be searched on.

Tip: Read through your completed resume and see if you can't describe qualifications, degrees, or job titles in multiple alternative ways throughout repparttar 135205 resume. This will increase repparttar 135206 chances you'll be found in an online search.

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